<p>Is it one of those K-12 schools?</p>
<p>It’s pre k- 12th and we don’t even have 200 people</p>
<p>Wow! What kind of classes do you have?</p>
<p>I’m in Modern Civ, Chemistry, English 10, Latin II, Speech (required), Apush (first sophomore to take an AP) and Online Pre-Calc</p>
<p>My schedule next year will probably be:
Ap Calc Ab, Latin III, Physics (no ap offered), Ap Biology, Ap Language(that’s the 11th grade one right? Lol) Ap Government/Economics (Each a Semester Long), and then Probably AP psychology (5 APs has also never been done)</p>
<p>Wow nice! My school has 1000 students and your’s still has more AP’s.</p>
<p>Happy Easter (or just Sunday for some of you)!</p>
<p>ATPmolecule’s post made me want to ask you all a question. How have you made history in your school, community, family, etc? If you don’t think you have, just say something you would like to do.</p>
<p>I’ll go first. I’ve made history twice in my school. I was the first freshman and the first male to become president of my school’s HOSA chapter. Also, I was the first student to sit on the PTSA’s executive board.</p>
<p>Just two little tidbits about me. Start sharing you guys! </p>
<p>Sent from my ADR6350 using CC</p>
<p>Need some advice if that’s okay with you guys.</p>
<p>I’m going to regionals for National History Day and was wondering if someone could tell me what to expect. I’m quite nervous!</p>
<p>I’ve co-founded two clubs and organized a school electronics recycling drive as a Freshman (president of the first club, VP of the second). The turnout for the drive exceeded our expectations last year, so the school wants it to be an annual thing. </p>
<p>Those are some rather impressive achievements, evan!</p>
<p>Wow, gone for a couple of days and there are a million more pages and a mini argument
@evan
I tested out of biology and chem, went straight to AP</p>
<p>I’ll be one of the first juniors to be varsity sport captains next year.</p>
<p>@IndigoPlateau: You don’t have any juniors as varsity sports captains? Weird. We have juniors, sophomores, and even one or two freshmen captains. But then again, we allow multiple captains per team. Nearly every varsity sports team has 3 to 5 captains. Believe it or not, we actually had an 8th grader as a captain one year, but he was ranked ~10th in the state for wrestling, so he had a good excuse. =p</p>
<p>At my school, each sport has two captains both seniors. I had an exception made because I’ll be the number one runner on the team next year.</p>
<p>Haha other things I’ve made history in is getting a fencing club started 
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<p>And sorry I can’t help on he national history day</p>
<p>How have I made history at my high school? I started a Math club, I was the only sophomore starter on the Academic Team, I was the first debater (and sophomore) to go to Metrofinals, win regionals, and qualify for nationals (along with my senior partner), I am the only sophomore in AP Bio (and I have the highest average–most of the students in the class(es) are seniors), and I’m pretty sure I have the highest GPA any sophomore has ever had at my school. My accomplishments are minimal compared to some of you guys, though.</p>
<p>Yeah Studious, you’re such a slacker.</p>
<p>Ditto on the GPA bit. The two other individuals I’m tied with for first rank and I are the first to achieve the highest GPA currently achievable at my school, and I’ll break the record again next year with the addition of AP Physics to my schedule (thanks early-bird gym!). Also captained our school’s JV Scholastic Bowl team to its highest conference finish in about 3-4 years.</p>
<p>I seriously wish I could take AP Bio as a Sophomore! That’d be so fun.</p>
<p>I’m so jealous of your guys’ rich schools with all sorts of clubs. Our school has no ECs at all with the exception of athletics and a band. I’d love to be in an academic team, but we don’t have any. :(</p>
<p>@Rob1995: My school doesn’t have the money to have some of the nicer amenities like some other 2014 CCer’s schools. Just find what you love and you should be happy!</p>
<p>Another bit: I currently have the highest weighted GPA in my school’s history (4.5833). My school is starting to add APs and honors classes, so it’ll be higher. :)</p>
<p>@evanb1996: Haha, glad to know I’m not the only one. I feel like I’m the only kid on here who’s parents aren’t trillionaires. =p</p>
<p>But one of the big reasons that our school has so little is because it’s a government-run school. I go to a school run by the government because of my dad’s professions, and provides a lot of things for us. For one, they pay for almost everything. They pay for sports programs so they can be free, they pay for what few AP tests we have, heck: if someone’s income is low enough (like my dad’s), you don’t even have to pay for school lunch. But sadly, since our school is run by the government, we are not allowed to get any outside sponsors. If I am correct, the only source of money our school can get is from the government - no sponsors from corporations for advertising, no outside funding whatsoever. </p>
<p>We don’t even have any kind of honors classes. Excepting those with pretty severe mental handicap and ESL students, all kids are lumped together in the same classroom regardless of academic skill level - resulting in classrooms containing kids ranging from slight learning disabilities to average students to very smart students. This has its advantages for some students - one interesting tidbit is that the gap in the performance between minorities and whites in our school is among the smallest in the country! Something that I’m quite happy about and has great effects on our school. We are very diverse (40% white, 30% black, 10% hispanic and 20% Asian (mostly islanders)) and racism is almost absolutely non-existent here. But since all kids are in the same classroom setting, a lot of the upper and lower extremes kinda get left behind. The lower extremes struggle to keep up, while the upper extremes are quite bored, since the teachers usually have to teach to a lowest-common-denominator level, if it makes sense. </p>
<p>Another disadvantage is that due to the professions of the parents of the kids here, most kids don’t get to finish high school at the same school. The average kid probably moves once every 2.5 years. I’m only a sophomore, but I’d estimate that already less than 70% of the students in the sophomore class did not begin freshman year with me, and that number is only going to get smaller as the years go on (3 of the top 10 kids in my class are moving, sadly). It’s kinda sad - when it comes to anything ranging from academics to athletics. For example, our best heavyweight on the wrestling team last year had to move. He placed first in our region and was ranked top 10 in the state. If he didn’t move, we could’ve placed much higher at state as a team. =/</p>
<p>It really has both its advantages and its disadvantages - you are right. But it really does make more sense to focus on the advantages while not dwelling on the disadvantages. Sure, a lot of things really suck, but we have a lot of decent things about our school as well. I’m sure that my situation would be seen as a unique one to colleges. :)</p>
<p>^ I would love to go to a school even like that. My school is in a very poor town and amenities are horrendous. Sports are the only things kids use to get out of the area. And it is not diverse at all (4 Asians, 6 blacks, and the rest white). I haven’t experienced discrimination since I’m at the top of my class (with a 4.0 UW ugh), but we have Core Curriculum so there are tons of required classes. I honestly never pay attention in honors (the most difficult I can take in 10th), so I either self study WHAP or APHG or Persian. And I’m not even close to being like some of you guys, the classes are just really bad.</p>